Big Venomous Snakes

If you're creeped out by snakes, today was not for you. We visited the "snake farm," a Red Cross affiliated center in Bangkok dedicated to raising venomous snakes in order to develop antivenom. The second oldest and one of the largest such centers in existence, it first began its work in 1923. Today they continue their work to produce antivenom from some of the world's most deadly snakes, and to provide public education about snakes of all kinds. We were able to witness the "milking" of cobra venom and see a snake handling show that included among others a king cobra, a siamese cobra, a banded krait, and a green pit viper, all poisonous snakes native to Thailand. Quinn was part of the show when she was asked to participate and bravely handled a burmese python.

For the evening, we attended a dinner performance of the Aksra Theatre, which puts on performances of traditional Thai puppet theatre.